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Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 15.0 cm
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
Subject
botanical
flower
anenome
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
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Date
1880 – 1939
Material
metal; wood
Catalogue Number
104.39.1003
Description
A small black japanned tin with a wooden handle. The tin contains a wooden palette along with brushes and oil paint tubes.
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Title
Artist Box
Date
1880 – 1939
Material
metal; wood
Description
A small black japanned tin with a wooden handle. The tin contains a wooden palette along with brushes and oil paint tubes.
Subject
Mary Schaffer
artists
painting
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1978
Catalogue Number
104.39.1003
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Date
1880 – 1910
Material
metal; shell
Catalogue Number
103.08.0227
Description
A small awl with a round steel (?) spike tapering to a very sharp point which is slightly bent at the tip. The flattened white mother-of-pearl handle is slightly pointed at the end.
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Title
Awl
Date
1880 – 1910
Material
metal; shell
Dimensions
0.5 x 1.0 x 10.5 cm
Description
A small awl with a round steel (?) spike tapering to a very sharp point which is slightly bent at the tip. The flattened white mother-of-pearl handle is slightly pointed at the end.
Subject
households
crafts
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0227
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Date
1880 – 1950
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
104.21.1004
Description
Axe head marked “4” and “Gilpin.”
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Title
Axe
Date
1880 – 1950
Material
metal
Description
Axe head marked “4” and “Gilpin.”
Subject
households
Credit
Gift of Unknown, 1968
Catalogue Number
104.21.1004
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Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887

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Artist
C. Firth
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.01
Description
Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
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Artist
C. Firth
Title
Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
12.0 x 16.0 cm
Description
Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
Subject
mountains
Banff
Bow River
Alberta
Banff Springs Hotel
Credit
Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.01
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Date
1880 – 1900
Material
wood
Catalogue Number
102.04.0376
Description
Small round twined basket with rounded base and high sides closing in slightly at the mouth, natural buff colour background with brown design and black accents, design repeated three times around sides is of four brown parallelograms stacked on one another in stairlike fashion moving up to the righ…
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Title
Basket
Date
1880 – 1900
Material
wood
Dimensions
10.5 x 13.5 cm
Description
Small round twined basket with rounded base and high sides closing in slightly at the mouth, natural buff colour background with brown design and black accents, design repeated three times around sides is of four brown parallelograms stacked on one another in stairlike fashion moving up to the right, with serrated edges of black-tipped triangles along the sides and narrow black lines between each parallelogram. Between each steplike series on the buff background is an oblique double zig-zag line running from bottom to top of the basket. Lip is finished with three rows of twining of a lighter brown colour, pattern not visible on inside. Paper tag rimmed with metal is attached with cord and wax through lip of basket; no writing is visible.
Subject
households
decorative
Indigenous
basketry
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
102.04.0376
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Date
1880 – 1930
Material
fibre
Catalogue Number
110.02.0007
Description
Small shallow flat-bottomed basket with sides flaring outward; coiled construction; pattern of coloured bands around coils, one band of brown then one band of dyed blue-green, followed by two bands of natural colour, repeated to the top of the basket where there are two bands of the blue-green colo…
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Title
Basketry Bowl
Date
1880 – 1930
Material
fibre
Dimensions
2.7 x 10.6 cm
Description
Small shallow flat-bottomed basket with sides flaring outward; coiled construction; pattern of coloured bands around coils, one band of brown then one band of dyed blue-green, followed by two bands of natural colour, repeated to the top of the basket where there are two bands of the blue-green colour; the patterning on the basket is divided into thirds vertically where a subtle definition is made by stepping up the colour on each coil at this point; sturdy but flexible.
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
110.02.0007
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Artist
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)
Date
prior to 1905
Medium
photoengraving on paper
Catalogue Number
RuC.11.01
Description
Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.
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Artist
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)
Title
Battling Moose
Date
prior to 1905
Medium
photoengraving on paper
Dimensions
30.1 x 50.4 cm
Description
Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.
Subject
landscape
animal, moose
Credit
Gift of W. J. Wright, Kamloops, 1969
Catalogue Number
RuC.11.01
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Date
1880 – 1920
Material
glass
Catalogue Number
103.01.0031
Description
A collection of twenty-three yellow beads and fifty-four green beads from a broken necklace.
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Title
Bead
Date
1880 – 1920
Material
glass
Dimensions
1.0 (maximum) cm
Description
A collection of twenty-three yellow beads and fifty-four green beads from a broken necklace.
Subject
decorative
crafts
beadwork
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0031
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Date
1880
Material
skin; glass
Catalogue Number
103.01.0019 a,b
Description
A pair of beaded leather armlets. The design on each armlet is a turquoise background with vertical stripes and two stepped triangular shapes done in dark blue and red beads. There is scalloped beadwork around the edges, and thong ties at each end.
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Title
Beaded Armbands
Date
1880
Material
skin; glass
Dimensions
29.0 cm
Description
A pair of beaded leather armlets. The design on each armlet is a turquoise background with vertical stripes and two stepped triangular shapes done in dark blue and red beads. There is scalloped beadwork around the edges, and thong ties at each end.
Subject
Stoney Nakoda
beadwork
crafts
decorative
indigenous
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0019 a,b
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